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2.6.3
Jun 9, 2026
- New A modern Reviews Feed block for the WordPress block editor, plus a new Elementor widget — pick one of your feeds and drop it onto any page or post visually, no shortcode needed.
- Fix Resolved a critical error on PHP 8 sites where an unexpected response from a review source could crash the page instead of being skipped over. Feeds now stay up and quietly ignore malformed review data.
- Fix Adding or refreshing Google and Yelp sources is more reliable — when the reviews service is slow to respond, the connection no longer hangs or leaves you with an empty feed.
- Fix Deactivating your license now works reliably, including cases where it previously kept showing a "License cannot be deactivated" error.
2.6.2
Jun 4, 2026
- Fix Improved reliability on PHP 8 — when a review source can't be reached, the plugin now logs the issue quietly in the background instead of interrupting the feed builder.
- Tweak Refreshed the Easy Digital Downloads source icon to match EDD's current branding.
2.6.1
Jun 2, 2026
- New Help Widget with quick access to documentation and feature suggestions now available in the Reviews Feed. Easily find answers and share your ideas without leaving the plugin.
- Fix EDD review titles now display above the review body on both the public feed and the customizer preview. Previously the title (filled in via the required "Review Title" field on the product-page review form) was forwarded to the feed but silently dropped by the renderer. Special characters in the title (apostrophes, ampersands, accented letters) render once, no double-encoding.
2.6.0
May 19, 2026
- New Easy Digital Downloads is now a first-class review source. Pick any of your EDD downloads, group several into a multi-product source, or build a feed straight from a category or tag — same wizard you already use for Google, Yelp, and the rest.
- New EDD source icons render in the same provider-icon row as your other sources, so customers can tell at a glance which review came from your store.
- Tweak Cleaner small-icon notice graphics — admin notification thumbnails now keep their aspect ratio instead of being stretched into a square.
- Tweak Notification icons load reliably across the admin area; the small "Reviews Feed" thumbnails that occasionally appeared as broken images now resolve to the correct file.
- Tweak After a Pro downgrade or after deactivating the EDD Reviews extension, your existing feeds keep displaying the reviews they already collected — both on the frontend and in the admin preview. New EDD sources can no longer be created in that state (the picker tile correctly disables itself with a clear "extension required" message). If you need to remove or replace an EDD source after a downgrade, delete it and recreate when the extension is reactivated.
2.5.5
May 13, 2026
- Fix Background cron update optimizations — feed processing batches more efficiently, reducing Google Places API requests on sites with multiple feeds.
- Fix Connection stability under transient server conditions such as cache events, brief deploys, and high-traffic parallel requests.
- Fix Site URL recognition across proxy formats (Cloudflare, AWS, Nginx), www variations, and trailing-dot domain forms for consistent connectivity behind any hosting setup.
- Tweak Update external links.
2.5.4
Apr 24, 2026
- Fix Resolved a registration loop on multilingual sites (WPML, Polylang) where WordPress's home URL emitted different language paths across requests.
- Fix Hardened the registration retry limiter so it correctly stops repeated requests even when the plugin successfully registers in a loop.
2.5.3
Apr 24, 2026
- Fix Resolved a loop where sites that switched between http and https (for example after enabling SSL via their host) kept re-registering on every page load.
- Tweak Added a safeguard that limits how often the plugin can retry registration when something goes wrong, so it never floods your site or our servers.
2.5.2
Apr 23, 2026
- Fix Deactivating your license works again — no more "License cannot be deactivated" error.
- Fix When your site URL changes, the plugin re-registers your license on the new URL automatically.
- Fix Google reviews from authors with non-Latin names (Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, etc.) no longer disappear.
- Fix Source address now shows under the business name for Google, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Facebook.
- Fix Total ratings no longer dips during a provider outage — falls back to last good count.
- Fix Plugin self-heals on next admin load if settings get corrupted by a backup/migration tool.
- Fix Email verification no longer loops when the email was already verified.
- Fix Clicking an expired email verification link no longer throws an error.
- Fix Email verification completes even if your WordPress session has expired.
- Tweak Hardened security on the email verification flow.
- Tweak License deactivation errors now explain the real cause (e.g. license key mismatch).
2.5.0
Apr 2, 2026
- New Review Alerts – Display eye-catching review notification popups on your website to showcase customer feedback and build social proof.
- New 4 Review Alert themes including Minimal, Minimal Dark, Light and Dark variants.
- New Customizable display settings for Review Alerts including position, timing, initial delay, and cycle interval.
- New Page targeting for Review Alerts – display on all pages, specific pages only, or exclude certain pages.
- New WooCommerce page detection for intelligent Review Alert targeting.
- New "See All Reviews" expandable view in Review Alerts loads reviews on click for better performance.
- Tweak Added security fix with rel="noreferrer" on external links.
- Tweak Accessibility improvements for interactive elements.
- Fix Resolved PHP 8.1+ deprecation warning when feed settings were not an array.
2.4.6
– March 10, 2026
- New Added deactivation feedback survey to help improve the plugin.
- Fix Improved block editor performance by eliminating unnecessary database queries on page load.
2.4.5
– March 4, 2026
- Fix Resolved international character encoding issues (æ, ø, å, etc.) in source names causing API errors.
- Fix Improved HTML entity decoding in review content display.
- Tweak Enhanced source identification reliability for API communications.
2.4.4
– Feb 18, 2026
- Fix Resolved Borlabs Cookie 3.x compatibility issue preventing consent detection.
- Fix Improved website registration token handling for better reliability.
2.4.3
– Feb 12, 2026
- Tweak Improved API key handling for all review providers.
- Tweak Saved API keys are now used when adding new sources.
- Tweak Enhanced API communication reliability.
2.4.2
– Feb 6, 2026
- Tweak Plugin hardening and miscellaneous fixes.
2.4.0
– Feb 3, 2026
- New Display reviews from your WooCommerce store as a first-class source. Select individual products, categories, or tags to showcase product reviews anywhere on your site.
- New Full PHP 8.4 compatibility with all deprecation warnings resolved.
- New Feed location tracking to see which pages use each feed before deletion.
- New Pagination for feeds and sources lists in the admin for better management of large numbers of items.
- New Weighted average calculation for multi-product WooCommerce sources review score.
- Tweak Plugin hardening and miscellaneous fixes.
- Fix Improved SQL query patterns to prevent incorrect product ID matching.
- Fix Fixed spelling errors in code.
- Fix Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
2.3.0
– Dec 9, 2025
- New Integrated GDPR compliance for photos sourced from Google and Yelp.
- New Introduced support for multiple languages in TripAdvisor.
- New Added a two-row carousel feature to enhance visual presentation.
- New Improved the display of source addresses for Google.
- Tweak Added the ability to set breakpoints for the carousel layout to enhance customization options.
- Fix Resolved an issue that prevented review images from displaying correctly after clearing the cache.
- Fix Fixed a problem that caused incorrect reviews to load due to caching system errors.
- Fix Additional plugin hardening.
2.2.0
– May 29, 2025
- New Display user reviews from your Easy Digital Download customers. Boost your social proof and increase conversions by displaying product reviews from EDD.
- Fix Fixed an issue with the Google review translations.
- Fix Fixed the issue that would cause the _load_textdomain_just_in_time deprecation warning.
2.1
– March 25, 2025
- New Added integration with the new Google Places API.
2.0
– January 22, 2025
- New Get Google and Yelp Reviews without an API key. Get weekly feed updates for Google and Yelp reviews without an API key for a limited number of sources. You can still add an API key for more frequent updates and unlimited sources.
- New Display user reviews from form submissions on your site. Reviews submitted with either WPForms or Formidable Forms can now be displayed with the Reviews Feed plugin.
- Tweak Added additional logging to troubleshoot certain feed issues.
- Fix Improved the reliability of the bulk history retrieving when connecting a new source.
- Fix Additional plugin hardening.
1.5.0
– July 24, 2024
- New Get up to 100 historical reviews for a Yelp and Google Source. A one time request will be made to grab up to 100 of the most recent reviews for your sources.
- Important The minimum PHP version is now 7.4.
- Fix Plugin hardening.
- Fix Fixed an issue causing the cache to not work properly. Feeds and headers would not update.
- Fix Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements.
1.4.2
– April 25, 2024
- Fix Fixed an issue that would cause feed sources to update more frequently than intended when many feeds were created.
1.4.1
– March 29, 2024
- Fix Fixed an issue causing feeds to update more frequently than expected.
1.4
– February 21, 2024
- New Added a new feature "Collections". Add new reviews manually or edit existing reviews to create completely curated collections of reviews. Add your collection as a source and display it in a feed.
- Tweak Added load more button in sources list.
- Fix Fixed issue with the header stats not being updated.
- Fix Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements.
1.3.1
– January 5, 2024
- Tweak Added more functionality that protects your Facebook data.
1.3
– October 5, 2023
- New Added support for showing reviews in different languages based on WPML (WordPress Multi-lingual Plugin https://wpml.org/) features. Configure this on the Language & Translation tab for the Settings page.
- New Add a minimum and maximum character length setting to hide short or long reviews if needed. In the feed customizer, visit the Settings tab, Filters sub-tab to configure this setting.
- Tweak A source is automatically selected when it's added in the feed creation process.
- Fix Fixed an issue that would cause reviews to be shorter than expected.
- Fix Fixed the text for expanding reviews.
- Fix Fixed issues and PHP warnings that affected sites using PHP 8.1+.
1.2
– June 28, 2023
- New Added TrustPilot to our list of review providers! If you have a Plus or Elite license, you can now display reviews from any TrustPilot page.
- New Added WordPress.org as a supported review provider! Elite license holders can show reviews from any plugin or theme in the WordPress.org repository.
- Fix Fixed an issue causing duplicate reviews to show for Google sources under certain circumstances.
- Fix Fixed an occasional issue of shortened text showing as a blank review with an asterisk to expand.
- Fix Fixed the default URL to leave a review not working under some circumstances.
1.1.1
– April 26, 2023
- Fix Fixed a bug with the carousel layout causing only the asterisk (…) to show for some review text.
- Fix Manual account connection for Facebook reviews was not working.
- Fix Fixed inaccurate average rating in the header when multiple sources were used in a feed.
- Fix Fixed visual star rating not showing half-stars. For example, an average rating of 4.6 would show 4 of 5 stars filled in the visual star icon.
- Fix Fixed pagination not being available when more than 20 feeds were created.
- Fix Fixed PHP error "undefined index" when header data was not available for a feed.
- Fix Fixed fatal error when installing or updating due to custom script initiation on some hosts.
1.1
– February 15, 2023
- New Added support for Google locale when retrieving reviews. Configure the locale of your Google reviews on the settings page, "Language & Translation" tab for all feeds. Set the locale just for a specific feed on the "Settings" tab, "Language" panel when customizing a feed.
- Fix By default, new reviews are retrieved with no translation.
- Fix Images would be refetched when the cache expired even when they were already available for the feed.
- Fix Fixed issue causing the strings in the plugin to not be translatable through WordPress.
- Fix Fixed undefined constant "GLOB_BRACE" causing errors on some servers.
1.0.1
– January 18, 2023
- Fix Facebook reviews were not filtering by star rating correctly.
- Fix Connecting a TripAdvisor source would not work if using the full URL and the ID of the place was greater than 6 digits.
- Fix Fixed some conflicts with other Smash Balloon products that would cause some visual issues with buttons and icons.
- Fix Removing a source from the plugin will also remove it from the Reviews API to allow changing sources without an API Key if needed.
1.0
– January 11, 2023
- Launched the Reviews Feed Pro plugin!
